If you want to beat procrastination, then you need to do more than just ‘do’ your weekly planner. You need to follow your weekly planner.

This is hard for a clutterholic because we’re so dominantly in-time and driven by our emotions in the moment. Yet the most successful people on this planet follow a schedule because they know they can’t trust their decisions about what to do with their time in the present or future. Here are 5 key benefits to doing and following a weekly planner.

Benefit No. 1: Helps you Prioritise your Time Jar (if you follow it)

When you do your weekly planner every week and turning your Wheel of Life Review into specific tasks and actions, you’re deciding what your priority eggs and pasta in your time jar are going to be. When you put your eggs and pasta in your time jar first, you’re less likely to fill it with procrastination sugar.

Benefit No. 2: Makes you Feel Motivated (if you follow it)

‘Doing the Doing’ fuels motivation – not the other way around. So, by simply following your weekly planner, (which is based on your Wheel of Life priorities each term), regardless of whether or not you feel motivated to do what’s on your weekly planner, you’ll trigger that dopamine ‘hit’ that will then help you feel more motivated to follow your weekly planner the next day, then the next day, which will evolve into a routine of ‘Doing the Doing’.

Benefit No. 3: Helps Reduce Stress (if you follow it)

When you take the time to do your weekly planner on Day 1 of your Clutter Clearing week, creating as many weekly planners as you need, making time to work on your Wheel of Life priorities every week, you’ll know that you have made time to do everything you NEED to do. You’ll also have flexibility built in with continency time to allow for any genuine emergencies without it sabotaging your Clutter Clearing Journey time. That will all help significantly reduce your stress levels.

Benefit No. 4: Helps you Succeed on your Journey (if you follow it)

Weekly Planners help you succeed because they help you break down large goals into smaller, more manageable, bitesize daily tasks e.g. being a Steady Turtle requires 1 hour a day of watching and following your Journey videos, 5 days a week. That might be 1 x 1 hour a day or 2 x 30 minutes, whichever feels more realistic for you. You’ll then start to see and feel your progress and success week by week, and slowly but surely build the routine you need to succeed.

Benefit No. 5: Helps you build the habits you need to stay clutter free Forever (if you follow it)

Routines are the prelude to habits. Habits are what are going to keep you clutter free Forever once you’ve completed your Journey. When you do your weekly planner – and follow it – you’ll build those routines and habits quickly and easily. If you ignore your weekly planner, expect the clutter to grow back once you’ve completed your Journey.